Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 28
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Published Jan 1944 by Fiction House.Auction opens January 4
- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4393105013
Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Malcolm Reiss. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Joe Doolin, Fran Hopper, George Appel, Alex Blum, Arnold Hicks, Lily Renee, and Lee Elias. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Good-girl art aplenty as Gale Allen and her team are captured by man-eating plants; Mars tries to inspire war on a pacifist planet; Hunt and Lyssa get caught in a war between cave-dwellers and surface people in The Lost World. Outer-space derring-do cover by Joe Doolin approaches the level the series was famous for. The Lost World; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Mars, God of War; Space Rangers; Can the Creatures of Space Enslave Us?; Norge Benson; Auro Lord of Jupiter; The Star Pirate. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.